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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Without a doubt. The home field advantage will be nice but we shouldn’t be fooled by records at the end of the season. A 102 win Twins team is likely inferior to a 97 win Yankees or Astros team.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, my point is that the Twins have hung with everybody and beat most of them.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    That's pretty much my point. They're playing like a 100 win team right now but there are still over 100 games left in the season. The Twins are almost guaranteed to be a pretty good team, more likely a very good team. Whether they're a 100 win team is still very much in question.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    No, they're not definitely a 100 win team. No team is definitely a 100 win team on June 1st.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins have a losing record against just two teams this season: Yankees and Philadelphia. They have a 1-2 record against each of them so it's not as if they're getting killed by anyone.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    At worst, the Twins will finish the Brewers/Rays series with a 3-3 record. It's becoming almost impossible to question this team's legitimacy. Sure, they're maybe not a 100 win team but they're a very good team that can easily get better with a couple of key acquisitions.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    The Minnesota Twins: Bringing Sexy Back
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Lindor is likely a better player than Polanco going forward, yes. In 2019, Polanco has been the better player. Polanco has ripped out a whopping 2.6 fWAR in roughly a third of a season. Lindor has come up with a 1.0 fWAR in roughly a quarter of a season. Jorge is the better player right now. I don't think that will be true going forward but it's true right now.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I think the Twins’ lack of an opener can be summed up with one stat: The Twins’ bullpen has pitched the fewest innings in the AL. If your starters are pitching a bunch of good innings, the need for an opener becomes less necessary.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree but the kid sounds like he may be the type who will press on until he succeeds. It’s worth a couple of starts to find out more.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I don’t see any reason not to push everyone back, give the starters a break during the coming off-days, and letting Smeltzer stick in a five man rotation to see what he can do. The team has a 9.5 game lead in May. They can afford to take small risks in hopes it improves the team for the rest of the season.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I absolutely agree that the team needs more, better relievers to allow more flexibility in high leverage situations. I'm only arguing whether Rogers has been overused.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Rogers has pitched 22 innings this season. That puts him on pace for about 65-70 innings for the season. He may have been overused early in the season (but not by a lot) but he's had a pretty easy 7-10 days. Sometimes, good pitchers just bomb out for a spell and then recover. I'm not worried yet.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    This is a game the Twins should have won. They hit more, walked more, and pitched better. They lost by one run. It happens. Move on, try again tomorrow.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    “So far this season, no other team in the league has hit six or more home runs in one game, the Twins have done it four times.” That is mind-blowing.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm a big advocate of this approach. In a 162 game season with postseason aspirations, it's bloody foolish to run your best players into the ground before you even get to September. On a side note, did anyone catch Morneau's comments about the new approach a few weeks ago? It basically boiled down to "I tried to do too much and it hurt me in the second half of seasons. I wish this existed when I played." Good luck getting that kind of honest, inward-looking commentary from Bert or Jack.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    The thing about “super” utility guys is that they need to be able to play short. I’m not sure Arraez can do that, as scouting reports are pretty iffy on the guy.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    There is ABSOLUTELY reason to believe a 22 year old with little upper minors experience will hit poorly in the Majors once pitchers get a look at him. This isn’t beer league baseball. The skill level Arraez is facing is miles better than anything he’s seen in his life. Justin-freakin’-Morneau had a .660 OPS his rookie year.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    All this talk about Arraez in the comments and not a single mention of the pure comedy of Polanco and his 89 foot lead off third base last night. This team is delightfully annoying.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Definitely. There’s no need to jump him 9-to-1 in a single move.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    All of this. I want to see Buxton move up - and I'm sure the coaching staff feels the same way - but I see no need to pressure a guy who has folded pretty hard under previous pressure. Let him get his feet under him and move him up when it feels right, not because statistics "force" the issue. When will that happen? Dunno, I'm not talking to Byron Buxton everyday. But the coaching staff is and they understand the sabrmetric implications of keeping him the nine slot as well as any of us. This isn't Gardenhire's coaching staff and we should keep that in mind when pointing out relatively obvious sabr principles and wondering why they're not doing the obvious thing here... it's probably because they have a reason for doing it.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Watched the first 3-4 episodes of Dead to Me on Netflix. The end of the first episode left a sour taste in my mouth but it turned out the show really knows what it's doing. Highly recommend.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    It shouldn't be overlooked how important Pineda's performance was last night. The Twins haven't had a day off in a week and won't get a day off for another week. Their pen was shaken up quite a bit by that Angels series and they're in the first game of a seven game road stretch. Going seven innings is a really big deal in that situation.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. Vlad Guerrero. I was watching the game when it happened. Damned near fell over laughing.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    This game was nerve-wracking. I don’t particularly care for nerve-wracking games in mid-May.
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